For a detailed study of the circulation of stories about one feral child from the twelfth century on, see Avner Ben-Zaken, Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011).

Though Ryman remains most closely identified with minimalism, his experimental autodidacticism --dedicated to discovering the possibilities of the materials on one hand and eliciting the viewer's delight on the other--makes his work hard to confine to any one school.

Unlike the majority of his Abstract Expressionist confreres, so marked by first-generation angst, autodidacticism, decades of poverty, and a tragic consciousness (arising from the Great Depression and the horrors of World War II), Motherwell was a child of California wealth and privilege.

The most revealing evidence for this intense autodidacticism is the composer's library, which unveils him as an ardent collector of Hungarian music; besides a few manuscript collections he compiled himself, his estate included around a hundred original Hungarian music prints.

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